Floyd Mayweather says his focus is on protégé Gervonta Davis, not Conor McGregor

Floyd Mayweather instructs
Gervonta Davis during an open work-out.Alan Dawson / Business Insider

A showdown between UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor and
boxing legend Floyd Mayweather may be generating heat, but the
latter's focus is elsewhere.

Mayweather insists his attention is on his protégé Gervonta
Davis, who takes on English fighter Liam Walsh at the Copper Box
Arena in London on Saturday, May 20.

Mayweather is in the UK to help promote the fight. "As of right
now my focus is on helping Gervonta Davis be victorious on
Saturday," Mayweather told reporters after Davis held a public
workout at York Hall.

"That is a task in itself… to come to another guy's country and
fight another undefeated top contender [in Walsh]."

A gifted young fighter, Davis boxed his way to amateur acclaim as
a quick teenager with sharp punches, but the Baltimore boxer is
now taking the professional ranks by storm. He won the IBF
version of the super featherweight world championship in his last
outing with a knockout victory over Jose Pedraza in January.

After Davis competes on Saturday, Mayweather will perhaps
contemplate his own terms for the potential showdown with
McGregor. It was only natural that he was pressed for an update
on any apparent negotiations from McGregor's promoter, UFC boss
Dana White.

There are other fights out there for Mayweather, like taking on
the winner of the Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin
fight in September, but he was adamant that there is "only one fight that
makes business sense."